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Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is a very troubling story which, undoubtedly, raises questions for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, about his discussion with a person acting on behalf of INM in connection with the attempt to take over Celtic Media. This all happened in November 2016. The Minister gave advance notice to the PR executive, acting on behalf of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with Chancellor Angela Merkel on 20 March 2018. [14007/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 16. To ask the Taoiseach the foreign visits he plans to undertake to the end of June 2018. [16168/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach stated that the aim of the committee is to protect the most vulnerable. I would like to return to the issue of housing and homelessness, which was raised in the previous batch of questions, because I think we can agree that those without a roof over their heads - individuals and families in homelessness - are among the most vulnerable. I understand the Minister for Housing,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Taoiseach promising a summer?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B - social policy and public services - last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15859/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Other speakers have mentioned the real distress and pressure the ongoing fodder crisis is causing. Farmers are paying at least double the normal cost of feed which is an unbearable pressure for them. It is a scandalous situation. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine met in emergency session last week but the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A - economy last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [15858/18]

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the National Women's Council of Ireland raised very serious concerns in response to a report demonstrating that An Garda Síochána had been overstating the number of sexual offences reported by 26% in 2003 and by 6% overall for the 14 years up to 2016. The National Women's Council of Ireland described the system-wide shortfall of data collection and analysis by State...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has been done before and it was allowed.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The view for many people is that powerful politicians in and out of Government in the State have stood off and even courted very powerful interests within the media. I think the Taoiseach will agree with me that that is a very dangerous perception, never mind the reality of it. I agree with him that the ODCE needs to be assisted in doing its work and I challenge the Taoiseach to put his...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: That, too, tells where the Taoiseach's balance of consideration and emphasis lies. I will put the question to the Taoiseach again. There is a request for four additional staff places. He has indicated difficulties in recruitment.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to hear solidly from the Taoiseach his concrete proposals to beef up the resourcing and staff complement of that office.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The news of the data breach at INM is deeply alarming. Hundreds of thousands of emails may have been compromised. Nineteen individuals were singled out for data interrogation in October 2014 and, allegedly, it involved a hired firm conducting a trawl of electronic records of journalists and others at the company. They included investigative journalists and lawyers who had worked on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Birth Certificates Administration (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 967. To ask the Minister for Health if after implementation through the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017, a partner in a same-sex relationship and parent to a child who was born before the implementation of the Bill will retrospectively be listed as a parent on the child's birth certificate along with their partner due to the fact that Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family...

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sharing time with Deputy David Cullinane. We will take five minutes each. I am very glad to hear the leader of Fianna Fáil reiterate the necessity for special status for the North of Ireland and to protect the peace agreements, to ensure no hard border and to keep the North inside the customs union and the Single Market. There are women in the Gallery from Ligoniel in north...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The net point is that whatever views are taken of Russia, America or any other administration or regime, at the core of this matter is this country and its policy and tradition of military neutrality and an independent foreign policy. Was the issue of Catalonia discussed? The Taoiseach will be aware that Charles Puigdemont was detained in Germany on Sunday. All of this is playing out...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: So why did the Taoiseach contact it?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was actually at the Speaker's lunch for the first time when the Taoiseach told his story about his interaction with President Trump. Although the telling of it was gauche and cringy, I am more worried about the fact that it happened than the fact that the Taoiseach said it out loud on that occasion. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am not sure he has actually given an explanation for that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and the Taoiseach was warmly received, but he needs to explain what happened, the chain of events and how in the name of God he thought it appropriate to do what he did, never mind to stand up and say it on Capitol Hill.